Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial with a prostrate habit, bracteate inflorescences, white corollas, and often glaucous grey leaves.

Myosotis glauca (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) de Lange & Barkla is in the plant family Boraginaceae, was originally described as M. pygmaea var.

[6] Myosotis glauca differs from these two species in its straight, appressed trichomes and (usually) glaucous grey leaves.

[9] The specific epithet, glauca, is derived from Latin and refers to the dull greyish-green glaucous leaves of species.

[10] In a study analyzing microsatellite markers developed specifically for the pygmy subgroup of southern hemisphere Myosotis, all populations of M. glauca cluster together in the different analyses.

The corolla is white, up to 4 mm in diameter, with a cylindrical tube, and small yellow scales alternating with the petals.

[1] A recent taxonomic revision recommended maintaining this conservation status, but replacing qualifier "DP" with "RR" (Range Restricted).